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Placing Regions in Tracks
Once you have created a region, it appears
in the Audio or MIDI Regions List. From
there you can drag it to a track to add to an
existing arrangement of regions, or you can
create a new track and start adding regions
from scratch. The exact placement of re-
gions in a track depends on whether the
Edit mode is set to Shuffle, Slip, Spot, or
Grid (see “Edit Modes” on page 145 for de-
tails).
For information on locating regions in the
Regions List by typing the first few letters
of their name, see “Keyboard Selection of
Regions” on page 144.
To place a region in a track:
1 In the Audio or MIDI Regions list, select
the region you want to drag to a track. To
select more than one region, Shift-click
each additional region.
2 Drag the selected regions from the Re-
gions List to a track at the desired point.
If dragging multiple regions, the regions
are placed on adjacent tracks. This tech-
nique is useful for dragging regions that are
part of a stereo pair onto two tracks, keep-
ing them lined up and in phase.
Regions are placed according to the current
Edit mode:
• In Shuffle mode, existing track regions
are slid as necessary to make room for the
new region.
• In Spot mode, you are prompted by the
Spot dialog to enter a location for the
dragged region (see “Spotting Regions”
on page 184).
• In Grid mode, the dragged region snaps
to the nearest Grid boundary.
• In Slip mode, the regions are placed
freely anywhere in the destination track.
☞ Use the Replace Region function to replace
all occurrences of a region (in all tracks) with a
different region from the Regions List. See
“Replacing Regions” on page 261.
Placing Regions at the Edit
Insertion Point
You can easily place and align a region’s
start, end, or sync point to the Edit inser-
tion point. This technique is useful in post
production applications since it allows you
to set a reference point and quickly place
sound effects while ensuring that their start
point remains consistent.
You can drag a region from the same track,
from another track, or from the Audio or
MIDI Regions List.
▲ For TDM systems, when Continuous Scroll
with Playhead is selected, regions snap to the
playhead, instead of the Edit insertion point.
To place the start of a region at the Edit
insertion point:
1 Click with the Selector in the track at the
desired time location.
2 While pressing Control (Macintosh) or
the Start key (Windows), drag the region
from the Regions list, or from another
track, to the destination track.
– or –
If the region is already in the track, Con-
trol-click (Macintosh) or Start-click (Win-
dows) the region with the Grabber.